The Athens Medical Campus is a four storey healthcare facility of roughly 100,000 square feet located on Columbus Road in Athens, Ohio, and it is now open and treating patients. Memorial Health System started the 13 room emergency department in June 2024, then opened the second and third floors weeks later.

Athens Medical Campus Sets the Modular Benchmark for American Hospital Work

Assembled from 204 modules built by MODLOGIQ in Pennsylvania, the campus is the largest permanent healthcare facility in North America produced away from site. Its emergency department opened around 15 months sooner than a conventional build allowed, a contrast with the conventionally delivered Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital expansion further north.

Project Overview

• Project Name: Athens Medical Campus, covered previously as the Athens Health Campus
• Location: 206 Columbus Road, Athens, Athens County, Ohio, United States
• Project Value: Estimated at US$100 million, per Memorial Health System president and chief executive Scott Cantley
• Client and Owner: Memorial Health System
• Key Components: Four storeys across roughly 100,000 square feet, a 13 room emergency department, outpatient services and walk in labs, primary and specialty care, OBGYN and ophthalmology departments, imaging covering CT, MRI, X ray and nuclear medicine, a heliport, and a parking garage joined by a two storey pedestrian bridge
• Procurement Model: Design and build, delivered through off site modular construction using 204 modules averaging about 51,000 pounds each
• Construction Start: Module fabrication and site preparation ran in parallel, with module deliveries beginning on 9 October 2023
• Completion: Emergency department opened on 13 June 2024, with the second and third floors following in July 2024
• Funding: Bonds issued by the Washington County Board of Commissioners, enabled by an Athens County resolution passed in July 2022
• Strategic Impact: The largest permanent healthcare facility in North America built using off site modular construction, delivering emergency services to Athens County roughly 15 months earlier than conventional methods would have allowed

Project Team

• Client and Owner: Memorial Health System
• Off Site Construction Contractor: MODLOGIQ
• Developer: Medical Innovations Development, known as MIND, based in Columbus
• Architects: NAC Architecture and Mark Molen Design
• Financier: Washington County Board of Commissioners, through bond issuance
• Regulatory Body: Athens County Board of Commissioners

Reported 19th December 2022: Work has started on the Memorial Health System’s Athens Health Campus using MODLOGIQ, a pioneer in intelligent off-site construction. It will be the largest permanent healthcare facility in North America built using off-site modular technology once it is finished.

The four story, slightly under 100,000 square foot medical facility will offer an under privileged population needed services. Memorial Health and the project’s developer, Medical Innovations Development (MIND), gain greatly from off-site modular construction.

The Athens Health Campus is a Design-Build project to help with the tight timeline. It will have four operating rooms, a trauma center, clinical services, medical imaging. Further, CAT, MRI, X-ray, and nuclear medicine, as well as a heliport and parking garage.

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Off-site construction will also prevent hundreds or possibly thousands of site visits by contractors, suppliers, delivery trucks, tradespeople, and other personnel for a project of this size. Literally tons of green house gases will be eliminated. Additionally, at MODLOGIQ’s facility, up to 90% of the construction waste from the Athens Health Campus project will be recycled rather than going to landfills in Ohio.

Remarks on the Athens Health Campus project

“Over 65 tons of steel, timber, sheetrock, cardboard, and other materials were recycled by MODLOGIQ last year. We have the capacity and infrastructure required to deliver on a project of this size and scope—while ensuring that we minimize the impact on the environment—thanks to our climate controlled plant, special 8-acre build yard, knowledgeable MODLOGIQ team, and extensive contractor and tradespeople network,” according to Randy Harding, Plant Operations Manager.

“The Athens Health Campus is a complex, multi story health facility that is ideal for our SMART OFF-SITE CONSTRUCTION. We will provide significant benefits—Schedule Acceleration, Cost Certainty, Superior Quality, Least Site Impact, and Greater Sustainability—by utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM), working with partners who have extensive experience in healthcare/off-site modular construction, and adhering to our special ‘Build Together’ methodology, says Jim Gabriel, President and CEO of MODLOGIQ.